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If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
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Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
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